by Indra
12. September 2011 04:31
I need to execute InstallUtil.exe at the end of a MSI installation created using WIX.
At that moment this link is down (How to Invoke InstallUtil.exe in WiX Custom Action to Call Your Managed Installer Class).
I found out that what I need was Custom Action Type 34 (running an exe with a working directory) from these threads:
These are the code snippets incase the first link is down again.
<!-- create custom action -->
<CustomAction Id="AfterCopyingFiles" Directory="DirectoryID_Where_InstallUtil_Is_Copied"
ExeCommand="[DirectoryID_Where_InstallUtil_Is_Copied]installutil.exe File_Containing_RunInstaller_Attribute.exe" Return="check" Impersonate="yes" Execute="deferred" />
<CustomAction Id="ForUninstall" Directory="DirectoryID_Where_InstallUtil_Is_Copied"
ExeCommand="[DirectoryID_Where_InstallUtil_Is_Copied]installutil.exe /u File_Containing_RunInstaller_Attribute.exe" Return="check" Impersonate="yes" Execute="immediate" />
<!-- set when custom action will execute -->
<InstallExecuteSequence>
<!--install-->
<Custom Action="AfterCopyingFiles" After="InstallFiles">NOT Installed</Custom>
<!--uninstall-->
<Custom Action="ForUninstall" Before="RemoveFiles">REMOVE="ALL"</Custom>
</InstallExecuteSequence>
After reading Chapter 5 from WIX A Developers Guide to Windows Installer I found out 2 more ways to trigger an executable during installation:
- Custom Action Type 2: using Binary element for storing executable in MSI.
- Custom Action Type 18: using File element for copying the executable first to the target machine.
code snippet:
<CustomAction Id="CustomActionType2"
BinaryKey="BinaryElementId_For_The_Executable"
ExeCommand=""
Execute="commit"
Return="ignore" />
<CustomAction Id="CustomActionType18"
FileKey="FileElementId_For_The_Executable"
ExeCommand=""
Execute="commit"
Return="ignore" />
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